- Associate Professor, Program Director
- Visual Arts & Technology
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- studio@jeffreythompson.org
- www.jeffreythompson.org
- @jeffkthompson
- Born ⤳ Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Lives ⤳ Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA
- Education
- Solo Exhibitions
- Group Exhibitions
- Residencies
- Awards
- Selected Press
- Lectures
- Teaching
- Curatorial
Education
- 2006
- MFA ⤳ Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art
- 2004
- BFA ⤳ Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Solo exhibitions
- 2023
- Slough of Despond ⤳ The Mudroom; Lawrenceville, NJ, USA
- 2020
- Universal Approximator ⤳ SPACES; Cleveland, OH, USA
- 2020
- Human Computers ⤳ Locust Projects; Miami, FL, USA
- 2018
- First There Is A Mountain, Then There Is No Mountain, Then There Is ⤳ King's College, University of Cambridge; Cambridge, UK
- 2017
- I Touch You And You Touch Me ⤳ Harvestworks; New York, NY, USA
- 2015
- White Noise Boutique ⤳ Brighton Digital Festival; Brighton, UK
- 2014
- Impossible In Another Form ⤳ George Mason University Gallery; Fairfax, VA, USA
- 2013
- A Very Deep Saxophone And A Very Long Guitar ⤳ Sheldon Museum of Art; Lincoln, NE, USA
- 2013
- Seam Sorting ⤳ LEVEL Gallery, Lawrence Technological University; Detroit, MI, USA
- 2011
- Glistening Waves ⤳ Harvestworks; New York, NY, USA
- 2008
- Lamination ⤳ Local Project; Long Island City, NY, USA
- 2007
- Wavering Cedar and 100,000 Blades of Grass ⤳ Department of Safety; Anacortes, WA, USA
- 2006
- Recording Exchange ⤳ Hogar Collection Gallery; Brooklyn, NY, USA
Selected exhibitions
- 2023
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GUI/GOOEY ⤳ Plexus Projects; online
Recode (PCD23) ⤳ University of Porto, Faculty of Fine Arts; Porto, Portugal
- 2022
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Total Information Awareness ⤳ Grizzly Grizzly; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition ⤳ ArtWorks; Trenton, New Jersey, USA
- 2021
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Athens Digital Art Festival ⤳ Athens, Greece
- 2020
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Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts Exhibition ⤳ University of Hartford; Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Also Tubes ⤳ Unrequited Leisure; Nashville, Tennessee, USA
The Virtual is (Always) Already Real ⤳ Bronx Art Space; New York City, New York, USA
- 2019
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e/co,li:b-re.bel ⤳ Piksel Festival for Electronic Art and Free Technologies; Bergen, Norway
Future Relics ⤳ Vector Festival/InterAccess; Toronto, Canada
Do or Delegate ⤳ Onomatopee; Eindhoven, Netherlands
Who Does What ⤳ Drugo More Gallery; Rijeka, Croatia
- 2018
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Machine Learning for Creativity and Design ⤳ NeurIPS Conference; Montréal, Canada
Tufts Public/Wave Farm in Residence ⤳ Tufts University; Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Digital Spring Festival ⤳ Salzburger Kunstverein; Salzburg, Austria
Future Perfect ⤳ Hygienic Gallery; New London, Connecticut, USA
- 2017
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Wave Farm 1997–2017: Twenty Performances for Twenty Years ⤳ Fridman Gallery; New York, New York, USA
0x ⤳ Terra Gallery/Ethereal Summit; San Francisco, California, USA
Radical Networks ⤳ Brooklyn, New York, USA
Mind-Body Dualism ⤳ SIGGRAPH Asia 2017; Bangkok, Thailand
Root Signals Festival ⤳ Georgia Southern University; Statesboro, Georgia, USA
Arts on Division Video Festival ⤳ Somerville, New Jersey, USA
- 2016
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Sound_Attempt_Error ⤳ Like A Little Disaster/Omphalos Gallery; Terlizzi, Bari, Italy
Art of Bots ⤳ Somerset House/Abandon Normal Devices; London, England
Art2Code ⤳ College Art Association Conference; Washington DC, USA
Game On! El Arte En Juego ⤳ Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2015
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Technologism ⤳ Monash University Museum of Art; Melbourne, Australia
/mit ðe dete/: Source Materials Visualized ⤳ The Center for Book Arts; New York, New York, USA
Somewhere In-Between ⤳ ArtHelix; Brooklyn, New York, USA
- 2014
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Inverted Normals ⤳ Rowan University; Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
Into Thin Words ⤳ LALD Space; Polignano a Mare, Italy
Weird Science ⤳ Kunsthalle Galapagos; Brooklyn, New York, USA
INTERP ⤳ Turbulence; online
Code Poetry Slam 1.1 ⤳ Stanford University; Stanford, California, USA
First Annual Invitational Exhibition ⤳ Kunsthalle Galapagos; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Net.Works 2.0 ⤳ Vector Game + Art Festival; Toronto, Canada
Computers on Law & Order ⤳ Rhizome/Museum of the Moving Image; Queens, New York, USA
- 2013
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Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup: People Make Things That Make Sounds ⤳ Lux Center for the Arts; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- 2012
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Code Conference: Media, Games, and Art ⤳ Swinburne University of Technology; Melbourne, Australia
10th Annual Piksel Festival ⤳ Bergen, Norway
- 2011
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Redact/Froth/Expand/Smash/Stitch: New Video Works ⤳ Sheldon Museum of Art; Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
WATCH IT! ⤳ Taubman Museum of Art; Roanoke, Virginia
A Very Long Guitar ⤳ Bemis Center for Contemporary Art; Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Clattering Bits (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Not Festival; New York City, New York, USA
Bring Your Own Beamer ⤳ grrrilla galleries; Linz, Austria
- 2010
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{SØNIK} v2.0 Festival ⤳ Bronx Art Space; New York City, New York, USA
One Night Stand (part of the The Dissolve biennial) ⤳ SITE Santa Fe; Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Sounding Landscapes ⤳ Shu-box Theatre, University of Regina; Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Product of Exchange ⤳ Sudhaus; Berlin, Germany
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival ⤳ Graduate Center, City University of New York; New York, New York, USA
Wyatt Nash and Jeff Thompson ⤳ Local Project; Long Island City, New York, USA
Reduplication of the Real ⤳ Tactile Bosch Gallery; Cardiff, Wales
- 2009
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13th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA ⤳ Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina; Novi Sad, Serbia
Kunstfilmtag ⤳ Malkasten Theater; Düsseldorf, Germany
… a very loud silence ⤳ Le Flash; Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Academia Invitational ⤳ Museum of Nebraska Art; Kearney, Nebraska, USA
Investigations of Place ⤳ Jersey City Museum; Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Material Reciprocity ⤳ Possible Projects; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Resonance in Residence ⤳ 3rd Ward; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Dis-Echo-Nance ⤳ Hunter College Times Square Gallery; New York, New York, USA
- 2008
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Altered Landscapes ⤳ Salisbury University Electronic Gallery; Salisbury, Maryland, USA
Transart Institute Faculty Exhibition ⤳ BV Gallery; Linz, Austria
- 2007
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Music Reclamation Project ⤳ Hogar Collection Gallery; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art ⤳ Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Performance for Oranges ⤳ White Box Gallery; New York, New York, USA
Re-Surfacing ⤳ Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio, USA
- 2006
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All the Kings Horses ⤳ Asterix Gallery; Cleveland, OH
SoundLab – Memoryscapes ⤳ Al Kahf Art Gallery; Bethlehem, Palestine ⤳ Contemporary Art Museum; Casoria/Naples, Italy ⤳ Museo Arte Contemporaneo; Santa Fe, Argentina ⤳ Offizyna Art Space; Szczencin, Poland
The Whole is the Sum of Its Parts ⤳ Hogar Collection; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Stolen Time ⤳ Dam Stuhltrager; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Fresh Meat/Young Blood ⤳ Shore Institute for Contemporary Art; Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Crossed Circuits ⤳ Hogar Collection; Brooklyn, New York, USA
- 2005
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First Look ⤳ New Jersey Center for Visual Arts; Summit, New Jersey, USA
Diagram and Scribble Archives ⤳ Stony Brook University Gallery; Stony Brook, New York, USA
Spectrum: Works on Paper ⤳ Hogar Collection; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Sight/Sound: New Performance ⤳ Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper Exhibition ⤳ Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
- 2004
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ISC 2004 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture ⤳ Grounds for Sculpture; Hamilton, New Jersey, USA
Box Fresh ⤳ Soap Factory; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Residencies
- 2024
- Stove Works ⤳ Chattanooga, TN, USA
- 2023
- New Jersey Craft Artist Residency ⤳ Peters Valley School of Craft; Layton, NJ, USA
- 2022
- MacDowell ⤳ Peterborough, NH, USA
- 2020
- SPACES ⤳ Cleveland, OH, USA
- 2019, 2021
- University of Nevada, Reno ⤳ Reno, NV, USA
- 2018
- Visiting Fellow ⤳ King's College, University of Cambridge; Cambridge, UK
- 2018
- Willipa Bay ⤳ Oysterville, Washington, USA
- 2017
- Wave Farm ⤳ Acra, NY, USA
- 2016
- Bell Labs ⤳ Murray Hill, NJ, USA
- 2016
- Center for New Art ⤳ William Patterson University; Wayne, NJ, USA
- 2014
- Impakt ⤳ Utrecht, Netherlands
- 2009–2013
- Holland Computing Center ⤳ University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Lincoln, NE, USA
- 2012
- Internet Archive Curatorial Residency ⤳ online
- 2007, 2009
- Elsewhere ⤳ Greensboro, NC, USA
- 2006
- Vermont Studio Center ⤳ Johnson, VT, USA
- 2007
- Department of Safety ⤳ Anacortes, WA, USA
Awards
- 2024
- HASS Faculty Research Fellowship
- 2021
- Artist book commission ⤳ Black Rock Press/University of Nevada, Reno
- 2019
- Emergency Grant ⤳ Foundation for Contemporary Art
- 2019
- New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship
- 2018
- Nokia Bell Labs Faculty Fellow in the Arts
- 2018
- Digital Spring Festival commission ⤳ Salzburg, Austria
- 2017
- Lumen Prize ⤳ Short-listed for the Still Image award
- 2017
- Lumen Prize ⤳ Nominated and long-listed for the British Computer Society award for Art and AI
- 2015
- Brighton Digital Festival commission ⤳ Brighton, UK
- 2014
- Turbulence.org commission ⤳ New York/Massachusetts, USA
- 2013
- Creativity + Technology = Enterprise Grant ⤳ Harvestworks; New York, NY, USA
- 2013
- Research Council Grant-in-Aid ⤳ University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 2012
- Rhizome commission ⤳ New York, NY, USA
- 2012
- Nebraska Research Initiatives Grant
- 2008
- Van Lier Fellowship ⤳ Harvestworks; New York, New York, USA
- 2007
- Dispatx.com commission
- 2006
- Nadine Goldsmith Fellowship ⤳ Vermont Studio Center; Johnson, VT, USA
- 2004
- VanDerlip Travel Award ⤳ Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Selected press
- ANIMAL
- The Atlantic
- AV Club (The Onion)
- Boston Globe
- Brooklyn Rail
- CNET
- Comedy Central
- Creator’s Project
- Gizmodo
- Huffington Post
- Hyperallergic
- Kill Screen
- Laughing Squid
- MAKE
- Marketplace (National Public Radio)
- Neural
- Paste Magazine
- PetaPixel
- SciArt Magazine
- Sculpture Magazine
- Spark (CBC)
- Time.com
- The Verge
- Washington Post
- Wired.co.uk
- Yahoo Tech
Selected lectures
- Chairs and Supercomputers: Artists and AI ⤳ O'Reilly AI Conference (2019); New York, NY, USA
- Building Next-Step Resources ⤳ Processing Community Day/New School (2019); New York, NY, USA
- Chairs and Supercomputers: Artists and AI ⤳ Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (2018); Cambridge, UK
- Empty Apartments (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Photo History/Photo Future Conference (2018); Rochester, NY, USA
- Chairs and Supercomputers ⤳ Bell Labs (2016); Murray Hill, NJ, USA
- Computers on Law & Order ⤳ Digital Humanities Conference (2016); Kraków, Poland
- Computers on Law & Order ⤳ Keystone Digital Humanities Conference (2015); Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Computers on Law & Order ⤳ HASTAC Conference (2015); East Lansing, MI, USA
- The 12-Hour Class Period: Game Jams and Hackathons as a Classroom Model ⤳ FATE Conference (2015); Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Transmission and Openness: Strategies for the Geographically and Economically Disadvantaged (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ FATE Conference (2013); Savannah, GA, USA
- Art and Supercomputers ⤳ TEDxUNL (2012); Sheldon Museum of Art; Lincoln, NE, USA
- Data, Poetics, and Supercomputers ⤳ SECAC Conference (2011); Savannah, GA, USA
- Data as Medium ⤳ College Art Association Annual Conference (panel chair, 2011); New York, NY, USA
- Data as a Creative Visual Medium ⤳ Harvestworks (panel chair, 2008); New York, NY, USA
- Sound and Data ⤳ College Art Association (2008); Dallas, TX, USA
Artist talks include
- Anglia Ruskin University
- Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge
- Harvestworks
- Heong Gallery, University of Cambridge
- New York Electronic Arts Festival
- Ohio University
- Princeton University
- University of Cincinatti
- University of Hartford
- University of Nevada, Reno
- University of North Texas
- University of Pennsylvania
- Webster College
- William Paterson University
Teaching
- 2013–present
- Stevens Institute of Technology
Visual Arts & Technology
Hoboken, NJ, USA
Associate Professor (2019–present)
Assistant Professor (2013–2019)
Program Director (2013–2021, 2023–present)
Courses include...
Creative Programming 1, 2, and 3
⤳ Designing with Data
⤳ Physical Computing
⤳ Digital Fabrication
⤳ Professional Practices
⤳ Capstone 1 and 2
- 2022–present
- PhD advisor
Transart Institute ⤳ Liverpool, UK
- 2019
- Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts
University of Hartford ⤳ Hartford, CT, USA
- 2009–2013
- Assistant Professor of Digital Arts/New Genres
University of Nebraska, Lincoln ⤳ Lincoln, NE, USA
- 2008–2009
- Adjunct Professor of Digital Art and Video
Montclair State University ⤳ Montclair, NJ, USA
- 2006–2007
- Faculty and mentor
Transart Institute MFA Program; Linz, Austria
Workshops and other teaching
- Chance and Randomness ⤳ Transart Institute PhD seminar (2021); online
- View Source: A Web Digging Workshop ⤳ Digital Humanities Conference; Kraków, Poland (2016) ⤳ New York Electronic Arts Festival; New York, NY, USA (2019)
- Instrument-a-thon (w/ Lainie Fefferman and Seth Cluett) ⤳ Stevens Institute of Technology (2018); Hoboken, NJ, USA
- Games++ (w/ Alex Myers) ⤳ Various locations (2014–2016)
Selected curatorial
- 2021
- Printed Data ⤳ University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
- 2017
- Empty Apartments (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Drift Station; online
- 2016
- Radical Networks ⤳ Brooklyn, NY, USA
- 2012
- Field Guide (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Drift Station; Lincoln, NE, USA
- 2012
- Bookstore (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Drift Station; Lincoln, NE, USA
- 2012
- 10,000 Pixels ⤳ Art Micro-Patronage; online
- 2011
- Chopped & Stretched (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Drift Station; Lincoln, NE, USA
- 2011
- mailto: (w/ Angeles Cossio) ⤳ Drift Station; Lincoln, NE, USA
- 2011
- Find & Replace ⤳ Drift Station; Lincoln, NE, USA
- 2010
- Work Makes the Work ⤳ Eisentrager Howard Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Lincoln, NE, USA
- 2009
- Stored & Filtered: Time, Technology, and the Landscape ⤳ Texas Firehouse; Long Island City, NY, USA